Yesterday I couldn't get on the forum pages for a couple of hours. I figured it was the cyber-boyd version of a transient ischemic attack, and when I tried again yesterday evening, everything was ok. But then the same thing just happened. I couldn't get on for a couple of hours. Is it my ISP acting up, a problem with the forums, or a problem in the intertubes?

It definitely appears to be a DNS issue. At certain times doing a lookup for this site comes back as a host not found. So, if you haven't been here for a bit and your DNS cache has expired then you can't get to the site. If you still have it cached, then you can.

I don't have access to the DNS servers, but I did send an email to Neil to inform him.

Thanks, Rick. I had it happen for a little bit this morning again. The odd thing is that I come here pretty frequently, and the access problem has happened only after I have been on the site, usually just a few minutes before the problem occurs.

I think it's more than what I originally had thought. When/if you have trouble accessing here again, can you also try AppleCentral.com and MacTech.com It's definitely DNS related, but trying to figure out the extent of it so I can give Neil the best information to get it fixed.

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